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Some people would differ from the
conventional
wisdom, benefiting the system by introducing some variety and resilience.
Just as individual innovators must challenge
conventional
wisdom, companies must replace the established approach to the innovation supply chain with one that more closely resembles how they create and maintain a manufacturing supply chain.
Budgetary support in the context of a Customs Union would be a more effective way to disburse EU funds than
conventional
methods.
The results buck “the
conventional
wisdom that renewable energy is too unreliable and expensive,” says Kempton.“For example,” according to Budischak, “using hydrogen for storage, we can run an electric system that today would meet a need of 72 gigawatts, 99.9 % of the time, using 17 GW of solar, 68 GW of offshore wind, and 115 GW of inland wind.”
Now, the unconventional has become
conventional.
It is hard to recall, but a little over a decade ago,
conventional
wisdom - both inside and outside the US - held that America was in decline.
But today I regard it as equally important to challenge the new
conventional
wisdom that America is invincible, and that the "new unilateralism" should guide US foreign policy.
It is also designing and developing new classes of
conventional
short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) and medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs), such as the DF-21 – mobile, solid-propellant, longer range, more accurate, and able to exploit vulnerabilities in ballistic missile-defense systems.
There is a fossil carbon continuum ranging from easy,
conventional
oil, to deep and ultra-deep offshore oil, to extra-heavy crude oil.
With technological progress and rising oil prices, most of these reserves will become conventional, helping to push back peak oil for years.
After all, the current strategy has not really worked either as a deterrent against
conventional
attacks (which persisted throughout the years that Israel supposedly developed its nuclear arsenal) or as a warning to rivals (such as Iran) against developing a nuclear weapon.
Indeed, the
conventional
wisdom in the US is that Mexico policy regarding illegal immigration and drugs will be the province of the new Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano (herself a former border state governor).
The most immediate cause of potential instability is North Korea, which now poses not just a
conventional
military threat to South Korea, but also a nuclear threat to all of Asia, as well as to the US.
How should collective-action clauses be written, and should they extend to the sovereign’s
conventional
debt?
Conventional
wisdom decrees that this dual-track approach isn’t sustainable, and that low- to middle-skilled workers will eventually make way for robots.
As a result,
conventional
monetary and macro-prudential policies are caught between competing demands for credit, with one track needing to support productive growth and the other attempting to buy time for restructuring.
The Southern Strategy NATO NeedsISTANBUL – For almost seven decades, NATO has amply demonstrated its ability to fulfill its core mission of deterring a
conventional
attack against its member countries.
Since the Cold War, when it was positioned as a bulwark against Soviet expansionism, NATO has proved adept at developing responses to
conventional
threats posed by state actors.
Here you should recall Keynes' saying: "in the street it is more acceptable to fail by
conventional
means than to succeed by unconventional ones."
New technologies could even enable mini-grid providers to develop entirely new organizational models for electricity systems that are more effective and resilient than the
conventional
utility-based approach.
Countries that receive more than they must put into reserves could exchange the new money for
conventional
currencies.
Usually, the label merely indicates behavior that is different from what
conventional
analysts were expecting.
This suggests that Kim is not “crazy” after all, and that
conventional
deterrence will still work, as it has since 1945.
The
conventional
wisdom is that the euro was the political price Germany paid for French acquiescence to its reunification.
And yet today’s
conventional
trade wisdom flips this common sense on its head.
So the paradox is that the resignation of the outgoing Commission has had political consequences which are the opposite of those assumed by
conventional
wisdom.
And, more recently, it has embarked on a massive build-up of
conventional
forces and a large-scale modernization of its nuclear arsenal.
The
conventional
wisdom is that the threat of prosecution serves Xi’s goals of consolidating power and compelling the bureaucracy to implement economic reforms that run counter to its interests.
As Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has put it, “The
conventional
wisdom is that Europe’s hour has come and gone.
Conventional
taxes raise revenue, but pose a much greater risk of depressing growth in the process.
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